Don says Nigeria can earn $50trn as security revenue

Henry Omunu, Abuja

A university don and security expert, Professor Ibrahim Ado Abubakar, has said that the country can generate over $50 trillion annually as earnings from security. He disclosed yesterday at a 2-day conference on managing security and security challenges during the forthcoming 2019 general election organized by the House Committee on National Security and Intelligence in collaboration with a private firm, Josun Jossy Multinational Resources Limited. Similarly, Prof. Abubakar disclosed that research on airspace security management if approved by Nigeria’s airspace regulatory authorities is capable of ending plane crashes and other related accidents in the country. Delivering a paper on: “Technology, communication engineering in security management,” the university don declared that planes crashes and air accidents will soon be a thing of the past if a new research he is currently working on is approved by federal authorities. He explained that “plane crashes and plane accidents will be put behind us soon, if a new research developed is approved.” Prof. Abubakar said the country can generate so much revenue from security instead of spending trillions on same. According to him, soft wares can be developed for instance, for road traffic management, where government agencies like the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) can generate revenue from enforcement without necessarily being on the nation’s road and highways. In addition, he added that so much money can be generated by government ICT, space, security engineering and communication agencies by providing commercial services to individuals, governments and the private sector, if the outfit is well managed through good security policies and framework. Prof. Ibrahim, who spoke on far reaching security management issues in the country, lamented that the country has abundant indigenous technologists and scientists who can compete with the best in the world but were being ignored by the government.

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He cited lots of presentation and proposals he made on how to avert oil spillage, installation of close circuit television cameras to assist in security and surveillance in the nation’s capital, Abuja, which were not approved but awarded to foreign companies. To contain oil spills by oil prospecting firms, he said a similar software was designed for Iraq, which till date has stopped oil spillage in that country while the same software has been rejected by the national oil firm and other multinationals operating in Nigeria. He said in 2014, a security crash test was carried out by officers on the presidential fleet on Zuma rock, and the successful outing, indicated the success of his research on averting air accidents . The conference continues today.